Tuesday News Bits: Ronna McDaniel, Gag Orders, Mifepristone
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1d ago
The New York Post is reporting that NBC has un-hired ex-RNC chair Ronna McDaniel after most of the senior on-air staff revolted this week. NBC News has yet to issue an announcement, so we’ll see. But when even Chuck Todd pushes back against the establishment, you’re in trouble. And Rachel Maddow pretty much had the last word. Update: It’s now being announced on MSNBC that McDaniel is out. In other news: Trump has a new gag order. The judge presiding over the New York criminal case against Donald Trump on Tuesday slapped the former president with a partial gag order. The ruling from ..read more
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Appeal Bond Deadline Watch Live Blog. Update: Appeals Court Bails Trump Out
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by maha
3d ago
Good morning! As I write this, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is about to begin a hearing in the hush money case brought by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. I understand Trump has just arrived at the courthouse. I hope Trump enjoyed staying in his gaudy penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Hard to say how many more times he can stay there. His appeal bond is due today. Today’s hearing is to discuss the belated disclosure of records and to re-set the trial date. . NY Times: Merchan doesn’t have a whole lot of patience for Trump’s attempt to take the late release of the Southern District ..read more
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Government Shutdown and Appeal Bond Watch
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by maha
5d ago
Trump Appeal Bond Watch: It’s Friday afternoon, and there’s still no bond. Nor have we heard from an appeals court. It’s reported that Trump posted today in ALL CAPS on his toy social media platform that he has $500 million in cash right now. Of course he does. See also Josh Marshall. As we can see, the New York State civil judgment against Donald Trump, totaling roughly $450 million, and Trump’s seeming inability to post a bond for the amount in order to appeal the judgment, is the real deal. But it has also reminded us, brought us back to the Russian nesting doll, the infinitely layered oni ..read more
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More Trump Family Follies
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by maha
5d ago
First, you need to see this headline from Vanity Fair. Let it not be forgot that Jared was the guy who killed a plan for the federal government to direct pandemic supplies like PPE to where they were needed. This was while covid was slamming New York City especially hard. Jared decided this was a good thing. From the Vanity Fair article: Yes, in a February interview at Harvard that was posted online this month and uncovered by the Guardian on Tuesday, Kushner opined that the Gaza Strip could be “very valuable” from a real estate perspective, if Israel could forc ..read more
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Half-Billion-Dollar Bond Out of Trump’s Reach
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by maha
1w ago
This just in from the New York Times: Donald J. Trump’s lawyers disclosed on Monday that he had failed to secure a roughly half-billion dollar bond in his civil fraud case in New York, arguing that doing so was “a practical impossibility.” The filing, coming one week before the bond is due, raised the prospect that the former president might face a financial crisis unless an appeals court comes to his rescue. Mr. Trump has asked the appeals court to pause the $454 million judgment that a New York judge imposed on Mr. Trump last month, or accept a bond of only $100 million. The forme ..read more
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A Decision in Georgia
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by maha
2w ago
This just in — Judge Says Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Case, but Only if Former Romantic Partner Leaves No paywall. “An Atlanta judge on Friday ruled that Fani T. Willis, the Fulton Country district attorney, could continue leading the prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia, but only if her former romantic partner, Nathan J. Wade, withdraws as the lead prosecutor of the case.” Some other news outlets are reporting that the Judge said either Willis or Wade have to leave. But I assume that means bye bye, Wade. Share Tweet Share The post A Decision in Georgi ..read more
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For Trump, It’s Not 2016 Any More
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by maha
2w ago
I want to go back to something Josh Marshall wrote a couple of days ago, Has Ol’ Man Trump Lost His Touch? No paywall. Here’s the meat of it: There is a key difference here that is important to understand. Trump’s 2016 campaign’s success stemmed in large part from channeling the cultural and social grievance of middle aged white American men. His 2024 agenda is heavily focused on his personal grievances and doing away with all the restraints on the presidency that hobbled him and led to ego injuries in during his first term — Trump Unbound, as it were.  A big chunk of the vote ..read more
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Lies and More Lies in the News
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by maha
2w ago
Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated President Biden’s retention of classified documents and portrayed him as a senile old man in his report, is testifying to Gym Jordan’s Fishing Expedition Committee today. Note that as of yesterday Hur is no longer an employee of the Justice Department and is testifying as a private citizen. And he’s got an attorney with a history of defending right-wingers. I have no sense of how that’s been going. But this morning the DoJ released a slightly redacted transcript of the interview between Biden and Hur, and news outlets are discovering that Hur mi ..read more
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Trump’s Appeal Bond and Other News Bits
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by maha
2w ago
I’ve been looking for any information on the appeal bond posted by Trump yesterday. And we don’t know much.This is from Alternet — The ex-president’s bond was guaranteed by the Federal Insurance Company — a New York-based subsidiary of the company Chubb Group LLC, which is headquartered in Switzerland. In 2018, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg served on a trade advisory committee in the Trump White House. The Washington Post reported that “it was not clear from court records what collateral Trump presented to obtain the bond from Chubb.” We don’t know what was put up for collater ..read more
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State of the Union: Joe Did the Job
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by maha
2w ago
(Before getting to the SOTU — Trump just posted the $91 million appeal bond in the E. Jean Carroll case. Now let’s see him come up with the bigger one.) I have to say I’m feeling a LOT better about the November election after last night. There will be many bumps ahead, of course. But even as I keyboard a lot of Republicans probably are wondering if they overdid the “Joe is old and senile” claim a tad. Best headline so far: GOP Stunned To Discover It’s Not Running Against A Cadaver In 2024 Republicans who have turned Joseph R. Biden into a caricature of falling-down dementia and drooling incon ..read more
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